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We Test the ICP iPhone App (It Has A Grindr-Like Juggalo Locator)

By David Thorpe While perusing Insane Clown Posse's Twitter timeline, like a person does, I came across something interesting: our favorite rap clowns announced a new update to their official smartphone app, which I didn't even know existed. For the advancement of pop journalism and human knowledge ... More >>

Julie Brown Doesn't Care About the Super Bowl, But Will Watch the Half-Time Show, "Because That's Always a Train Wreck."

Rapper Kid Ink Only Began Writing in Order to Sell His Beats

A slight guy in nondescript white t-shirt and baggy Nike basketball shorts is bent over the vintage jewelry case at Fairfax's Dope Couture. Bracelets encircle both of his wrists; nevertheless, he points to a YSL piece whose thick links glint. It pairs nicely with the well-polished chain already slun ... More >>

Drip.FM Is HBO for Music Nerds

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] It's hard to pinpoint the date when the music industry stopped speaking like a shell-shocked trench poet, but the sky quietly quit falling. Last year, album sal ... More >>

Urbanspoon Launches "Right Now": A New Way to Find Something to Eat, Um, Right Now

Online reservations, especially ones you can make using your phone, are pretty darn convenient. There are a ton of companies that offer this service, although Open Table pretty much owns the bulk of the market. But yesterday Urbanspoon launched a new service through its Rezbook function, which allow ... More >>

Billr App: How to Split Your Restaurant Bill With Your Phone

If you go out to dinner a lot, with groups of friends or colleagues or random people you meet in bars or at food blogger camps or even IACP award dinners, you may run across the occasional math problem when it comes to divvying up the check. Making soufflés and conching chocolate being easier for s ... More >>

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Two-Year Citrus Quarantine in Eastern Los Angeles County

We knew it was only a matter of time. After watching Brazil's and Florida's citrus get decimated by Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) -- to the tune of billions of dollars -- we knew that despite rigorous agriculture checkpoints, testing and restrictions, California would probably be next. The bug, the c ... More >>

Brenmar: His Goal as a DJ Is to Get You Laid

Hearing a DJ throw on the one song you never thought you'd hear other than on your own iTunes playlist will seal your allegiance to him. By spinning Supa Blanco's slurry Southern underground anthem "I Bet I Do," Brenmar did just that when he opened for Iggy Azalea's recent, supa anticipated show. In ... More >>

The Fooducate iPhone App: Scan Favorite Foods At Your Own Risk

Does your New Year's resolution have you up against a wall yet? Introducing the Fooducate app, an app available for iPhones that helps the average food consumer shop for grocery foods. The app works like a scanner; it scans the barcode of foodstuffs and immediately produces a nutritional breakdown i ... More >>

8 Things You Need to Know About Music in the Cloud

cloud music...​ The future is almost here. Except for the part with jet packs and holographic television. The part that is here? Cloud based music storage. WTF is that, you might be wondering, and why should I care? Herewith we will tell you what it is, why it's important, and how it affects ... More >>

Village Voice Media's "Best Of..." App Goes Live

​Exciting news from the mother ship: The Village Voice Media "Best Of..." app, featuring 10,000 of the best things to eat, drink, see, hear and buy all over the nation, is now available for free in the iTunes store. Looking for the Best Banana Cream Pie or Best Chicken Salad? We've got you co ... More >>

A Tale of Two Twitterers: Phonte and Questlove Anoint L.A. Songstresses KING

KING, touched by the almighty hand of Twitter ​Last night around 8:45, former Little Brother lyricist and current Foreign Exchange crooner Phonte's Twitter timeline showed that he'd just "liked" a song on iTunes by someone named KING. Then he left a review on iTunes. He then gave thanks to the ... More >>

Project Fishmap, Monterey Bay Aquarium's Newest App: Almost as Much Fun as Angry Birds

​Here's something new to add to your phone if you're a seafood lover. No, not a bluefin tuna version of Angry Birds, although that would be kind of fun. Slightly more useful is Project FishMap, a new feature of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch app, which lets you tag any of more than ... More >>

Free Music: DJ Rap (Metasyn) Remixes Crystal Method's 'Sine Language' Featuring LMFAO

The gang's all here.​L.A.-born big beat kings Crystal Method are doing a hometown set at the Avalon on Friday night and West Coast Sound has got a an exclusive remix of their latest single in honor of the occasion. In its original iteration, "Sine Language" is a moody, synthesizer-driven 6-mi ... More >>

Now Downloading: Mario Batali, Cook's Illustrated & Salsa-Making Apps

iTunes​ Whether you've got an iPhone, iPad, a Droid or a Blackberry, the application marketplace is an ever-growing beast of super-sized proportions. Especially when it comes to cooking programs. In the past we've shared the professional chefs' favorite apps, baker and blogger David Lebovitz' ... More >>

TGIF Mix: D-Formation's Tribal-Tech Journey Reigns In Spain

D-Formation.​Spain is becoming the new Berlin in dance music. Jimmy Van M, Chus & Ceballos and D-Formation have been turning out some fresh DJ mixes from the Iberian Peninsula. The latter provides our latest TGIF mix, a groovy, tribal-tech journey, via the dependable podcast series from YoshiR ... More >>

TGIF Mix: DJ Chus Brings The Tribal Goodness

​In the era of Daft Punk acolytes, hip-hop-trance sounds and pop-chart electronic music, it might be anachronistic to espouse tribal house music. Despite the dizzying new influences in clubland, no one brings a fresher, more urgent dance-floor vibe than Spain's tribal king, DJ Chus. His lates ... More >>

Internet Sensation Antoine Dodson and Auto-Tune the News Sell 'Bed Intruder' on iTunes

Antoine Dodson and Auto-Tune the News could make a mint off of "Bed Intruder"​Yet another one for News of the Weird. In a savvy if not morally ambiguous move, the Auto-Tune the News people and their unlikely foil-turned-hero Antoine Dodson have released their song, "Bed Intruder" to the iTune ... More >>

Winery Road Trip: Cliff Lede's New Platinum Playlist Classic Rock Tasting

There are certain specific rules for drinking and listening, say, Johnny Cash with cheap beer (should prison water prove difficult to procure) and just about any wine with jazz. Unless you're opening a bottle of Cliff Lede, which is a classic rock-only leaning vineyard. When it opened several year ... More >>

The Bob Bendick Podcast

Wait. Think. Fast. Debuts New Single and Video Filmed at La Cita Bar

Wait. Think. Fast. Debuts New Single and Video Filmed at La Cita Bar

Top 10 Holiday Gifts: Presents for Foodies

For some people, food is just the stuff we eat, but for others, it's a bit more important. Take your mother, whose favorite television show is Top Chef and who staged a Quickfire Gravy Challenge at Thanksgiving this year. From the boyfriend who says "yes chef!" when you're boiling pasta for dinner t ... More >>

Rhino to Release 'Digital 45s,' with A-sides, B-sides and Original (PDF) Sleeves

In ongoing effort to bring weird little songs from Rhino's catalog to the top of the digital avalanche, the legendary LA reissue label is launching a new series of so-called 'digital 45s.' This morning the label announced the program: Rhino will spotlight songs originally issued on 45 by offering t ... More >>

New HEALTH 7": "Die Slow" Underscores the Hidden Power of Rave Sounds

The e-tards understood something that many of us long forget in the haze of the rave life: that freaky dumb synthesized noises played at full volume and with great intensity SOUND REALLY AMAZING.

Tonight at the Fonda: Airborne Toxic Event Go Worldwide (Just to Spite the Haters)

Erin Broadley Something really weird is going on with the Airborne Toxic Event, like, next-level kinda stuff. All the sudden the band that many jealous Angelenos love to hate -- and just as many pine to chant along with -- is selling out East Coast venues, is stomping across Europe and making legit ... More >>

iTunes to Go DRM free, Drop Some Prices, Raise Others

A few weeks ago after a visit to the Mac repair shop for my ailing MacBook, one of my favorite albums of the year, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, stopped working on my iTunes because I apparently had used the music on too many computers. Which was a load of crap, of course. I had ... More >>

Vegas, Baby! Vegas! An Incomplete Guide to Lounge Music

I watched a lot of movies when I was a kid, frequently imagining myself in some of my favorites. In 1977, the movie was Star Wars and I was Han Solo (like most geeks, I was really Luke Skywalker, but he was so whiny and Han was so cool!) In 1982, the movie was Tron, and I was Flynn, using my supreme ... More >>

Silver Lake's CMH Label Strikes Gold With Two Oddball Ideas

Radiohead: Reviewing the Price You Paid

Once upon a time, the music editor and maybe 1 or 2 others at LA Weekly would have gotten an advance of a hotly anticipated new album, often months before street date. There's also a good chance it would have then sat in the back seat of that person's car until after street date. Radiohead made ... More >>

Amazon's MP3 Bargains

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "1234" by Feist, which is popular because it's played in an Apple commercial. Amazon's songs are DRM-free and 256k which are the big selling points. ... More >>

Power Pop Ain't Noise Pollution

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances

Hollywood starts new year with a bang

Rippin' & Dippin'

Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper

Vintage Evenings at the Ford: Christopher O'Riley

Giant Village's Summer in the City

Looking on the Dark Side

5 Wonderful Things

5 Wonderful Things

Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Laptop Laserium

Used in concert by Seal — Seal! — G-Force is one trippy-ass program

Bubblegum Hip-hop and a Band With three Test Icicles

Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

Baby Love

The hippie-capitalist wisdom of CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, hero to 93,000 indie musicians and counting

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10

Hi, Robot!

Handpicked for Beck EP, local androids get drunk, stoked, bummed

Subterranean Speed-Freak Blues

Things That Mean Things